{"id":41847,"date":"2013-02-06T10:00:53","date_gmt":"2013-02-06T15:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=41847"},"modified":"2013-02-06T08:29:10","modified_gmt":"2013-02-06T13:29:10","slug":"author-of-how-to-begin-again-to-be-at-utica-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=41847","title":{"rendered":"Author of &#8216;How to Begin Again&#8217; to be at Utica Library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Utica, NY \u2013 Feb. 2013) The public is invited to the Utica Public Library on Genesee Street on Saturday, Feb. 9, to meet a local minister who has lectured and written about the power of renewing the human person.<\/p>\n<p>The Rev. Dr. Mary J. Webster, pastor of New Hartford&#8217;s First Baptist Church, will be doing a book signing from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. for her book,\u00a0&#8220;The Human Condition: How to Begin Again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The book includes a series of essays &#8220;that speak to us personally on how we can change and improve our human condition,&#8221; Rev. Dr. Webster said. She uses the Bible and her experiences as an ordained minister and certified substance-abuse counselor to bring home the message &#8212; &#8220;We can begin again. We can pick up the pieces and become whole.&#8221; Throughout the book, Rev. Dr. Webster offers practical advice on how to confront issues that plague the human condition and how to reach the ultimate goal &#8212; healing.<\/p>\n<p>Rev. Dr. Webster, known to her congregation as Pastor Mary, has been the full-time minister at First Baptist since 2006. A graduate of Mohawk Valley Community College and SUNYIT Utica-Rome, she earned her Master of Divinity at Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School in Rochester, NY, and her Doctorate in Theology from Life Christian University in Tampa, FL.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Utica, NY \u2013 Feb. 2013) The public is invited to the Utica Public Library on Genesee Street on Saturday, Feb. 9, to meet a local minister who has lectured and written about the power of renewing the human person. The Rev. Dr. Mary J. Webster, pastor of New Hartford&#8217;s First Baptist Church, will be doing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22341],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-regional"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}